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Reviewer: cecelia Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/13/2007 - 09:01 pm Title: I Can't Dance

Spike needs to be heading over to Giles' to tell him that he's a bleeding wanker and that the sodding deal is off...

Author's Response: Hehehe, that's in future plans. Still need to get through the night, though. Spike made quite an uncharacteristic ruckus when he left. Thanks for reviewing. :)

Reviewer: Ariadne Signed Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/13/2007 - 11:57 am Title: I Can't Dance

Loved this chapter! You chose a good song for the dance :)
He should have danced with her.... I know he promised Giles, but anyway...
Poor Xander, now he surely believes something and poor Willow. I thought she liked Oz...
Please, please, please update soon!

Author's Response: I was thinking about the song for a loooooooooong time. I wanted it to be rock and I wanted it to be sensual, and for the life of me I couldn't think of anything that stood out. Then I listening to the Wicked Game cover by Giant Drag and remember the original... and it just fit. Yeah, he probably should have danced with her; they dance later in the story, it may even become a funny topic someday. Definitely poor everyone; they're all in love with the wrong people. :( And in my eyes Willow didn't really get over Xander until Cordy was shish-kabobed in season three.

Reviewer: Pet Signed Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/13/2007 - 10:02 am Title: I Can't Dance

Great update, I really like this story. Can't wait to see what happens next. :)

Author's Response: Thank you very muchly. :D

Reviewer: Penny Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/13/2007 - 02:09 am Title: I Can't Dance

Spike is so much with the honor. But life is short. You shouldn't give up on the one thing that can make you happy.

Buffy is so wrong on using Xander like that. She was wrong on the show and she is wrong now. She must know how he feels for her. Xander deserves so much more. I hope he gets a girlfriend soon. cough, cough, Anya, cough Anya is one of my favorite Buffy characters. Always speaks the truth whether you want to hear it or not.

Author's Response: Coincidentally, one of Spike's mantras is life is short, and that could possibly be one of his rationalizations in breaking the promise later. Still, though, you shouldn't make promises you know you can't keep. And, yes, Buffy is entirely wrong for what she did. We all make mistakes, though. Thanks for reviewing. :D

Reviewer: Pam S Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/13/2007 - 12:28 am Title: I Can't Dance

Honorable man.. and the conncection with Buffy is because?

Enjoying. Waiting to hear more about .. the dragon.

Author's Response: Him sensing her from very far away. But that was just the floodgates, he went entirely overboard in overfeeling his emotions after that. ;) Dragon's next chapter, I believe. Thanks for reviewing! :D

Reviewer: cordykitten Signed Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/11/2007 - 05:14 pm Title: My Obsession

Sorry to hear your headache was mean; good thing that you had a blast writing :)
I feared the tests would be harder... better this way around. ~ And Xander does indeed more instead of only barking *g*
I wonder how Buffy will handle a depressed Spike; that could torpedo her plan. ~ Looking forward to more :)

Author's Response: The tests will reveal themselves as a big part of the plot in due time, probably in a few chapters. I'm just purposely grazing over it now so I can use it in full later. Yeah, a downtrodden and completely thinking Spike might put a hole in Buffy's plans for the night. It is just a little dance, though, right? :) Thanks for reviewing. :D

Reviewer: anonymouse Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/10/2007 - 11:30 pm Title: My Obsession

good update looking forward to more

Author's Response: Thank you. :D

Reviewer: Verda Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/10/2007 - 03:40 pm Title: My Obsession

Nothing like clearing the air between them. This Spike is far to wise for his own good! Wondering how Buffy's little plan will work for her, seeing how he's on his way to his own private, little, despair.

Great news about your classes, you're lucky to get that many first choices. Glad to have you back and writing. You never know when your muse is going to hit just the right notes. Looking forward to the next chapter and Buffy's little seduction. Should be very interesting to watch, of course, depending on the outcome, that is. Really enjoying it, thanks.

Author's Response: Yeah, I'm perfectly fine with my classes, I guess. I'll probably have a lot of free time the first semester, so that's good. As for Spike: what he said is just _begging_ to be broken. I wanted to set up other barriers besides Giles (such as tainting innocence and not believing in love) that hold Spike back, among other things that will be revealed later. That way, when they finally get together, it will actually be satisfying, if a bit of a conundrum to Spike. I admit, though, that I was kinda infusing my thoughts into Spike with the "people don't complete other people" rant. Perfectly realistic insight, though, if a little bleak. And you said in a previous review that I had your email address, so I could email you when I got a new chapter up. I looked through all your reviews in this story, and I can't find that email address. I will, gladly, email you each time I post. You can send me an email at TestaALT@aol.com if you want your email to be kept between just us. Oh, and of course: thanks for reviewing, you rock. :D

Reviewer: jnharrow Signed Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/09/2007 - 08:28 pm Title: Savin' Me

Haha. I love that Buffy is torn between ogling Spike and panicking over the oral report at the same time. Good to know she's adept at multi-tasking. So brilliant that she schedules him for the same classes to "keep an eye on him." Smart thinking, that!

It's so sweet of Spike to save her, though slightly less sweet to choose the passage that he did! Though of course, that is one of the uglier ways women are degraded in the book, so I guess he was just following the teacher's instruction. Do kids really read things like The Handmaid's Tale in high school these days? Wow, things have changed since I last had a reading list, lol. Very interesting book. Spike must have eclectic tastes to have read it. But I may be being sexist in mentally deeming it a book that would be more interesting to women than men.

Author's Response: Hehe, it's like... "oh my god, I have this oral report I haven't studied and... ooo, pretty." She is a pretty smart person, too, though she doesn't have the self-esteem to know it (yet, and that's something our blonde boy will show her). The passage was meant to be as gritty as possible, I dunno why I did that but it just seemed to fit. And yes, I read The Handmaid's Tale for my senior year of high school (AP class, though). Really depends if you have the type of teacher that I had. Some teachers use the banned book list as their reading list. :) Definitely trying to interpolate Spike as having eclectic taste with the choice of book (this will be later expanded to music and films and beyond when the time arises). THT is no Epic of Gilgamesh. And you are being sexist, because I'm a male and I found the book incredibly fascinating. I could just possibly be in the minority, though, because I consider all cautionary tales and feminism fascinating (even 3rd wave feminism like *gasps* Buffy). I'd guess most Buffy fans would cite an interest as feminism. Thank you for reviewing. :D

Reviewer: Jin Signed Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/09/2007 - 06:59 pm Title: My Obsession

Well hi! Remember me? Wouldn't blame you if you didn't... =/

I've been a bad reviewer. But I've been truly busy; moving, turning 21, etc... Forgive me?

I will admit that when I first read the summary for this story, I said (out loud, at that) "A dragon? Really?" with a confused look on my face. Surely you can picture it. But since reading it, I've been hooked and trying to convince a fellow Spuffy shipper to read it as well. She's still hung up on the dragon thing though...

Anyway, my busy life if still busy, so I have to cut this short. So, to summarize: Love the story. ;)

Author's Response: omg liek of corse i remember u!!!1!! I stopped writing Black because you stopped reviewing. :( Heh, just kidding; I stopped Black because I needed a break from the chaos. But I definitely remember you as one of my most favoritist and bestestest reviewers ever. And yes, like I've stated several times in self-deprecating A/Ns, because of the dragon thing, I thought no one would read this at all. Behold my wrongness. Really, though, it's not going to be a terribly huge part of the story for quite a while, until the faraway climax and aftermath. It's just something to keep this from being a normal Spike fic and right now I'm just toying with ideas to flesh it out as I write a completely innocent Spuffy story. So tell your friend to join the ride. :D How'd you change your name? And, of course: thanks for reviewing. :D

Reviewer: Ariadne Signed Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/09/2007 - 06:08 am Title: My Obsession

So, Spike and Xander are getting to know each other :) That´s good. I wanna know how that dance goes, will she be disappointed when he´s not trying to kiss her or will he kiss her? By the way, I loved this chapter!

Author's Response: Thank you! :D I was kinda self-conscious about this chapter because it's mostly Spike and Xander talking to each other. Glad you liked it. :) And you'll just have to wait to see on the dancing. ^_^ A certain Phil Collins song comes to mind, though.

Reviewer: Ariadne Signed Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/09/2007 - 05:48 am Title: Promises

Luckily, I´ve got one more chapter to read :) This is getting better and better :)

Author's Response: :D Thank you for your kind words. They are much appreciated.

Reviewer: Ariadne Signed Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/09/2007 - 05:30 am Title: Savin' Me

A great chapter as well :) Thank you for sharing!

Author's Response: Thank you very muchly. :D

Reviewer: Ariadne Signed Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/09/2007 - 05:21 am Title: Presence

I liked the beginning! It was very well written and I liked the fact that Spike can transform into a dragon.

Author's Response: :D Thanks. I get all motivated and pumped when people comment on my writing and ideas in such a positive way. :)

Reviewer: Kratos Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/09/2007 - 03:40 am Title: My Obsession

I like this Spike, the perfect blend of maturity and fun-loving, plus being a friggen dragon is always awesome.
Look forward to more.

Author's Response: Thank you. Great to know that I'm on the right track. :)

Reviewer: Cheryl Jan Haswell Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/09/2007 - 02:03 am Title: My Obsession

Really enjoying the story. You might want to rethink the volume of the alcohol Spike orders. Most bars wouldn't serve a bottle of Jack and a bottle of rum to one person... by bottle did you mean a fifth oer a mini bottle? I doubt even a super being could finish a fifth of Jack that fast, Maybe you should have him order a double... that's two shots of pure liqour.

Author's Response: I'm not really the expert on alcohol, so thanks for telling me that. As far as finishing the bottle: they were together in silence for quiet a little while, I guess I just didn't emphasize that enough (my fault). And it's not like this is Spike's first time drinking, he thought he got ran over at the beginning of the story during drunken stupor. Thanks for pointing everything out. :)

Reviewer: guest Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/08/2007 - 11:59 pm Title: My Obsession

I always felt that Xander never truly was in love with Buffy. I just thought he had a crush on her because she was the slayer. Almost the same thing with Angel. That is my opinion.

I'm so happy that Xander and Buffy never got together. Not because they just won't work as a couple. But because I didn't want Buffy to have every guy. I wouldn't have liked that. You can't have all the guys. I like to think myself as a very pretty girl. I hope that doesn't come out wrong. But even I know that not every guy is going to fall at my feet.

I think it is good that you won't continue the Xander being jerk to any guy that Buffy is interesting in. Xander deserves so much more. he really does. but xander was an idoit to not have married anya. Here is a woman who truly loved him with everything she had and threw it away.

As for spike. I adore that Spike is love's bitch. But to a point. I don't like seeing Spike where he is pathetic and leaves his pride at the door when it comes to love. He is better than that as well. Like Spike having friends that it isn't any of Buffy. Most of the time it is always Buffy's friends that he is friends with.

I like this Spike though. He seems so wise and smart..



Author's Response: Right, Xander was not in love with Buffy, but had an infatuation (not Spike season five infatuation, per se) with her for the first few seasons. From blatantly obvious moments in season one (mirror peeping, Xander still thought Buffy was "hot" as a vampire) to season two (seduction dance, checking her out in Killed by Death, withholding valuable Angel information) and then three (Earshot... he can't stop thinking about sex and Buffy) and then all those stares, loose comments, and hug attempts mixed in between. I'm not bashing him; I don't blame Xander for any of these things. I'm a guy, and if I was in Xander's position, I'd probably have the exact same feelings and do the exact same things. I can completely sympathize with Xander, so you don't have to worry one bit about my characterization being off. He didn't love her, yes. But if, say, at the beginning of season two, Angel broke it off with Buffy and a hurt Buffy went running on the rebound to Xander (who, at the time, had his arms wide open for her) do you honestly think he would have denied her and told her that he liked being friends with her? Being friends with beautiful girls has its upside, definitely, but you're down on the upside in that situation if you're single. I'm not dealing with post-high school Xander, remember, but the one that chuckled and agreed when Sid said Buffy was "nubile" in The Puppet Show. Now, Angel is an entirely different story that would take paragraphs to discuss, with all that ambiguity and emotionlessness. But, in Xander's case, I don't want his obsession to cloud up the story. It's there, and it might be a part of the story at one point down the line, but this definitely isn't a love triangle story. I want Xander and Spike to be friends, something relatively rare in canon. So, really, no worries. It's just that, when I rewatched seasons one and two, I saw this obsession that I just couldn't overlook in the story. And you're in for a REAL treat if you like a Spike with some semblance of self-respect and pride, a Spike who doesn't follow Buffy around making moon eyes at her, because that's what I'm writing. I mean, he might eventually do something like that in a funny way (wow, I just spoiled stuff there), but he's his own person in this story. He'll have his own friends, he'll do his own thing sometimes. Mature and experienced, wise and smart is the Spike I'm creating. Thanks for reviewing, and I do hope you don't take my Xander rant the wrong way. I don't want to start an argument, and I value your opinion.

Reviewer: Pam S Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 08/08/2007 - 11:46 pm Title: My Obsession

Sorry the headache interferred with the vacation..
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Enjoyed the chapter- the "bonding" and in your face honesty between Spike and Xander.

Now for chapter 5 and more action. Guess Buffy has different ideas than Giles. Waiting to see if she gets her way.



Author's Response: Thank you; I was kinda worried about changing the pace a bit and having an almost completely non-Buffy related chapter. Yes, Buffy has different "ideas," and we will most certainly see them next chapter. :)

Reviewer: anonymouse Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 07/28/2007 - 01:05 am Title: Promises

good update

Author's Response: Thank you. :D

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Date: 07/26/2007 - 06:35 am Title: Promises

great chapter, cant wait for more!!! oh, and have fun in Hawaii!

Author's Response: Thank you very muchly! :D

Reviewer: buffy25122003 Signed Liked [Report This]
Date: 07/26/2007 - 03:23 am Title: Promises

love the fic plzz update as soon as you get back ( have fun ) and im happy that giles and spike or on a friendly relationship

Author's Response: Thank you. :D I most certainly will update when I get back. And the Giles and Spike as friends is definitely a part of this fic. :D

Reviewer: cordykitten Signed Liked [Report This]
Date: 07/24/2007 - 08:49 pm Title: Promises

Uh-huh.. tests? That doesn't sound good if you think of that this tests are connected with the Council.
Oh Giles got Spike's promise not to date Buffy. Not good... if he doesn't explain that his was Giles' wish Buffy will take the rejection from Spike wrong.
Two weeks vacation? Have fun! Though I miss the updates especially after this chapter, it leaves me wondering how Buffy will react.

Author's Response: You're dead on with Buffy taking Spike's rejections the wrong way. It's like you read my mind or something. Council tests may be different than you think. :) Thanks for reviewing.

Reviewer: J Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 07/24/2007 - 05:33 pm Title: Promises

Great update, and Xander is a turdhole, and Giles is an idiot for not wanting them to date. Hawaii is absolutely beautiful so I'm not too upset you won't be updating for 2 weeks because I would probably do the exact same thing. I hope that Spike doesn't keep his promise to Giles, and tries to hook up with Buffy anway. Have a safe and fun vacation!

Author's Response: Thanks for your kind words. :) He needs to break the promise, definitely. :D

Reviewer: Verda Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 07/24/2007 - 04:14 pm Title: Promises

Are your classes for the fall? Sorry you didn't get the English Intro, maybe next semester.

Seems as though Spike has lived a lot longer, then the seventeen years, he appears to be. I do hate Giles meddling like that. What, Buffy's not allowed a love life because she's the slayer? Shit happens to most relationships. Not everyone is lucky enough to find their soul mate. Besides, sometimes you need to rummage through the trash to find a treasure. Will Giles be giving this warning to every potenial love interest? I think not! He's using Spikes sense of honor, in a most heinous way!

I do love that Angel's not here to mess with her head. Spike is wonderful here, level headed and mature, though you know we all what him to break his promise to Giles, it wouldn't be a Spuffy fic if he didn't!

Have a great vacation, you have my email, please let me know when you've posted again. I'm not here that often. Thanks.

Author's Response: I have another pass at the English intro, and at that time I can just waitlist and bug the professor with random excerpts from classics until she/he lets me in. So no big. :) I got like half the classes I wanted (Psych 1, Poli Sci 1) and half that were just open (Geo 25, NAS 10). Overall, though, it should be a fun year. :) You're hitting the nail dead on the head with your observations. I just

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Author's Response: (some technical difficulties have made this three responses) I just love reviewers who talk about the story like you just did because it makes the story much easier to write. Giles is exploiting Spike; if it was, say, Owen or Billy, he wouldn't even bother speaking to them because he knew they wouldn't listen to him at all. It's nice to see that Giles respects Spike enough to just tell him flat, though. Spike is mature, cool, level-headed; I'm making almost the opposite characterization of Spike as I did in my last story. You're definitely right about most relationships; why else would there be fifty million songs on heartache? (^_^) And I'll be sure to email you when I get the next chapter done. Thank you so much for reviewing. :D

Reviewer: Pet Signed Liked [Report This]
Date: 07/24/2007 - 03:39 pm Title: Promises

Great update! Enjoyed it very much, although Giles and Xander...grrrr! *lol* Have a nice vacation!

Author's Response: Heh, thanks. :) Vacation was fun. :)

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